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StevenSteven Shiau,Shiau, JazzJazz Wang,Wang, CeasarCeasar Sun,Sun, ThomasThomas TsaiTsai NCHC,NCHC, TaiwanTaiwan Q1,Q1, 20092009 Outline Introduction to DRBL/Clonezilla About DRBL/Clonezilla Users in Taiwan and Worldwide Related Activities Success Stories Testimonials Demo DRBL – Diskless Linux client on a virtual machine Q&A Free Software Lab Free software projects developed by NCHC's Free Software Lab Our goal is to create a Free Software Smart Classroom (FSSC) based on our HPC experience DRBL, Clonezilla, DRBL- WinRoll, Tux2Live, PartClone Multicast VNC Access Grid, eLearning Cluster Computing Grid Computing
DRBL/Clonezilla
DRBL Clonezilla Diskless Remote Boot in Linux Provides a “diskless” A partitioning and disk and/or “systemless” cloning utility similar to environment for client Ghost and True image machines DRBL Saves Money No HD required in the client machine(s) Truly “Free” Software--freedom to improve upon and free to use Saves Time All programs are installed on a single server One command to Shutdown/Reboot/Power On/Off all client machines Makes Life Easier No client disk failure Client machines are plug-and-play Computer classroom environment is extremely flexible GNU/Linux & MS Windows co-exist
DRBL vs. LTSP
What's the difference between DRBL and LTSP?: DRBL: Distributed Resource vs. LTSP: Centralized Resource DRBL: Powerful Client vs. LTSP: Thin Client DRBL allows 3D gaming and video playback in the client; LTSP does not
Why DRBL? DRBL Special Features: Clonezilla Server Edition (SE) AoE service available using diskless MS Windows XP A single command is required to switch the client environment DRBL, FreeDOS, OS in local HD, memtest... Linux network installation Not suitable for older machines and/or thin clients //NOTE// From version 5 (released '07), fat client mechanism is supported in LTSP
“Bare Metal” Backup and Restore “Bare metal” restore -> A technique in the field of data recovery and restoration where the backed-up data is available in a form which allows one to restore a computer system from "bare metal” (i.e. without any requirements as to previously installed software or operating systems). – Wikipedia Image-based backup & restore is different from file-based (e.g. 'cp', 'tar', 'rsync'...) Clonezilla Features
Free (GPL) Software File systems supported: Ext2/3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS, jfs, HFS+, FAT and NTFS Linux Logical Volume Manager 2 (LVM2) stackable block device is supported Multicast supported in Clonezilla Server Edition (SE) Clonezilla Features Saves and restores partitions and entire disks If file system is supported, only the used blocks in the HD are saved and restored. For unsupported file systems, sector-to-sector copying is done via dd. DRBL-Winroll: The hostname, group, and SID of the cloned MS Windows machine can be changed automatically Clonezilla
Based on existing software: Partimage ntfsclone dd updcast DRBL (used for massive cloning) Partclone (Developed @ the NCHC, '07) and more..... Partclone
http://www.partclone.org Developed by Thomas Tsai and Jazz Wang Only the used blocks are saved and restored Supports Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS, HFS+, NTFS & FAT Will support for ZFS and BTRFS in the future! Two Clonezilla Types Clonezila Server Clonezilla Live Edition (SE) Single machine Massive cloning backup Network boot (PXE) Based on DRBL server is DebianLive (live- required helper and live initramfs) CD/USB flash drive is required Also available in Clonezilla- SysRescCD, created by Spiros Georgaras DRBL (Includes Clonezilla SE)
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DRBL Clonezilla Live On CD, USB flash drive, or PXE server Languages: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese (thanks to Zhiqiang Zhang and Liang Qi), English, French (thanks to Jean-Francois Nifenecker), Japanese (thanks to Akira Yoshiyama and Annie Wei), Italian (thanks to Gianfranco Gentili), Spanish (thanks Juan Ramón Martínez). General Purpose Use- Save or restore interactively Special Purpose Use- Recovery CD/USB drive Clonezilla image embedded in CD or USB drive One command restores the entire image! One key restores the entire image! Completely Customizable! Make Clonezilla Live work for you! Clonezilla Live DRBL/Clonezilla Use In Taiwan
Public Sector: Primary/High schools 295 Universities 95 Local governments 35 Hospitals 3 TV stations 1 SMBs 124 Misc. 2
Known sites/users >500!!!>500!!! DRBL/Clonezilla Use Worldwide
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>7>700,00000,000 DRBL/Clonezilla Downloads!!! Related Activities Ubuntu Live Conference Portland, Oregon, USA, July 23rd, 2007 Clonezilla: It's Better Than Ghost! Speaker: Kristian Hermansen, Security Researcher/Developer, Cisco Systems, Inc. http://www.ubuntulive.com/cs/ubuntu/view/e_se ss/12510 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco, USA, Aug, 2007 Dell booth Massive Deployments Speaker: Torsten Spindler, Canonical Related Activities Libre Software Meeting (LSM) 2008 Mont-de-Marsan, France, July 1st~5th, 2008 “Clonezilla Live, the “Bare Metal” Backup and Recovery Tool“ Speaker: Steven Shiau http://2008.rmll.info/Clonezilla-live-the-bare- metal.html?lang=en LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco, USA, Aug, 2008 .org Pavilion (booth #: .org 3) BoF: Clonezilla Hands-on Lab: The Universal “Bare Metal” Backup and Recovery Tool for Linux, Mac OS and MS Windows Ubuntu Live, USA, Jul/07 LinuxWorld; “Massive Deployments;” Aug/07 International Free Software Contest DRBL is the winner in the 'Public Sector Software' category at Les Trophees du Libre 2007 in France Finals and awards ceremony: Nov. 29th, 2007 http://www.freesoftwareawards.com or http://tropheesdulibre.com/?lang=en Intrnl. Free Software Contest, France, Nov/07 LSM 2008, France LinuxWorld, San Fran, '08 Aug 4-7, 2008 One of the largest Linux expos. .org Pavilion (booth #: .org 3) BoF: “Clonezilla Hands-on Lab: The Universal “Bare Metal” Backup and Recovery Tool for Linux, Mac OS and MS Windows” (Aug. 6th, '08) National Applied Research Laboratories Award
DRBL/Clonezilla team is the winner in the category 'Technology Development' for 2008 Success Stories
Da-Feng Elementary School, Taipei, Taiwan DRBL/Clonezilla is used to manage computer classroom Special Report: Linux in Education, 2006 on distrowatch.com DRBL/Clonezilla press conference @ Da- Feng Elementary School 07/04/07 source: distrowatch.com Success Stories Hualien County, Taiwan
Used Clonezilla Server Edition (SE) to clone GNU/Linux 145 schools (131 Primary/Jr.; 14 Senior High) use as of June '08 Letter of Commendation from Hualien County Government Clonezilla Used in Taiwan's “National PCs”
Source: De-Wen Huang Testimonials
Kristian Hermansen Cisco Systems, Boston, MA, Sept. '07 Cloned a 5GB image to 64 machines in 5 under minutes!!! "I used Clonezilla in the design of our Cisco Computational Cloud Cluster to multicast a 5GB disk image to 64 machines simultaneously and all in under five minutes! Amazing! Thanks Clonezilla!" Testimonials Barny Sanchez Information Systems Security, Southbridge, Massachusetts Cloned 1,084 systems using DRBL (Clonezilla SE) "I've used DRBL to clone 1,084 systems so far! It was simple! All I had to do was divide each system into groups of 80-100 PCs and then use multicasting to do the cloning. It took anywhere from 16-38 minutes to clone each system. The images of various operating systems averaged 1GB in size. DRBL has reduced the recovery/cloning factor by more than 500% as compared to the commercial solution I used previously! You can imagine how happy my project managers are!" What's New Since SEAIP 2007 ?
DRBL Supports newer GNU/Linux versions including Ubuntu 8.04/8.10, Fedora 9, Mandriva 2008.1, and OpenSuSE 11.0 Provides AoE booting mechanism in support of diskless MS Windows XP Clonezilla Live Easier to create a recovery ISO/zip Clonezilla Live Japanese, Simplified Chinese and French locales were added Serial console is supported Demo • Diskless Linux client on a virtual machine – Server: DRBL 1.9.3-30 running on Ubuntu Linux 8.10 – Client: Virtualbox 2.0.4 as a client machine, no local hard drive – Boot client via PXE (network booting) QuestionsQuestions ??
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